On the 23rd of September 1903, in Gwalia Street, Leonora, Western Australia, an event would take place that would start a string of family tragedies. The event was the death of a little girl, Eileen Margaret Doyle. She died of Tonsillitis and Bronchitis and was only 2 ½yrs old. She had only been ill for […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Shot in His Sleep — The Day Dawn Murder That Shocked the Goldfields
Evening Mail – Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o’clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was the murderer of the man, William John Clinton, at Day Dawn. No […]
The Ballad of the Bloke Who Backed Bad Luck
Northam Courier – 2 Dec 1910, page 6 UNLUCKY JIM Thus he spoke, in tones lugubrious, “Life is but an empty dream” And its joys are just as fleeting, As projections on a screen. Naught remains but plenty trouble, Disappointments, quite a heap, Punted years on singles, doubles, Nuff to make a feller weep. Thus […]
St Albans at Menzies — The Man Who Made the Desert Bloom
The information in the following stories was kindly supplied by Gary Cowans and is reproduced with his permission. In 1876, at the age of 19, Gustave Schmidt moved from Victoria, where he was born, to NSW and purchased land 8 miles SW of Moulamein. He married Emma Rebecca BICKFORD in 1884, and his first three […]
Across the Waterless Spinifex: Jim Keen’s Ordeal
Daily News – Perth – 27 October 1934, page 16 Jim Keen, who arrived in Kalgoorlie from the East this week with three camels, has prospected in several other countries besides Australia and has had some narrow shaves in the last 40 years. But he reckons the narrowest he has had was just recently, when […]
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